As SIR gathers pace in national capital, BLOs vow to ensure no genuine voter is left out
Delhi Booth Level Officers are conducting a month-long special intensive revision of voter rolls by door-to-door verification and document collection.
- Booth Level Officers are carrying out door-to-door verification, form collection and document checks for the voter-roll revision in Delhi.
- Delhi’s frozen electoral roll is reported to contain 1.45 crore voters.
- The special intensive revision in Delhi is described as a month-long exercise.
- The note says 14.03 lakh voter-roll forms have been digitised so far.
What happened
Delhi is carrying out a month-long special intensive revision of voter rolls. Booth Level Officers (BLOs) are going door to door, helping residents fill enumeration forms and collecting documents needed to update the rolls.
The exercise matters because BLOs must identify absent, shifted, deceased and duplicate voters across 13,033 booths. Many residents are confusing the exercise with a voter-card renewal drive, although the field work is meant for roll verification rather than card replacement.
UPSC can frame the issue around the constitutional and administrative importance of clean electoral rolls, the role of Booth Level Officers, and the balance between removing ineligible names and protecting genuine voters from exclusion.
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